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Floodwaters cover Albion Park raceway in the inner Brisbane suburb of Albion on January 13, 2011.

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Two men look down Albert Street in the Brisbane CBD during the January 1974 Brisbane floods.

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Floodwaters cover Albion Park raceway in the inner Brisbane suburb of Albion on January 13, 2011.

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The University of Queensland in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia goes under during the city's 1974 floods.

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A man carries a carton of beer through floodwaters down Brunswick Street near Merthyr Village in the inner Brisbane suburb of New Farm on January 12, 2011.

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A man dives into floodwater on the corner of Albert Street in front of Festival Hall during the 1974 Brisbane floods.

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Persons in the flood hit Brisbane suburb of Yeronga evacuate their property Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Brisbane and Ipswich are bracing for their worst ever floods, with tens of thousands of homes at risk and fears for citizens' safety, as the toll of dead and missing for the state-wide disaster continues to rise.

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People walk through the floodwaters at Rosalie village in inner Brisbane on January 12, 2011.

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Homes and businesses are inundated by floodwaters from the Brisbane River in central Brisbane, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Brisbane and Ipswich are bracing for their worst ever floods, with tens of thousands of homes at risk and fears for citizens' safety, as the toll of dead and missing for the state-wide disaster continues to rise.

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A car drives through floodwaters in Brisbane's West End on January 12, 2011.

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Oxley road underwater during the 1974 Brisbane floods

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Man carrying a bag above his head wades through floodwaters outside a house in Auchenflower, January 12, 2011.

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Floodwaters creep across the surface at Lang Park in the inner Brisbane suburb of Paddington on January 12, 2011.

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Sun rises over floodwaters lapping at the Regatta Hotel on Coronation Drive, Brisbane on January 13, 2011.

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Brisbane residents watch the Brisbane River peak at sunrise from Kangaroo Point on January 13, 2011.

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A man photographs the Brisbane Wheel, which is surrounded by floodwaters at Southbank on January 13, 2011.

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A yacht smashes into a submerged walkway that normally runs above the Brisbane River in the CBD, January 12, 2011.